George Eliot

Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexual, religious and social rules of Victorian society. George Eliot: A Scandalous Life explores how the scandals and rumours that plagued her life, never defeated her will or her literary genius; and how, against all odds, she went on to write some of the world's greatest novels including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.

Lawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have owned it for 300 years) and becomes the worst enemy of Tulliver's family. When Edward's daughter, Maggie, grows up, she falls in love with Wakem's son Philip. However, her brother Tom (true to the memory of their father) forbids her to meet him again. When she visits her cousin Lucy Deane, Lucy's fiance, Stephen Guest, falls in love with Maggie at first sight, further complicating matters.

Michael McCann, un hombre al que su mujer abandonó después de confesarle que su hijo no era suyo, vive solo y amargado en una pequeña ciudad. Sin embargo, su miserable vida cambia cuando adopta a una niña cuya madre acaba de morir. Michael y la pequeña viven felices hasta el día en que aparece el verdadero padre, un político egoísta que quiere recuperar a su hija solo para mejorar su imagen pública.

Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil surface of this pastoral idyll run deep passions and the bitter gall of betrayal.

Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.

Adaptation of the George Eliot novel.

A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.

En el siglo XV, Romola, hija de un sabio florentino ciego, se casa con Tito Melema, hombre de escasos escrúpulos. Utilizando todos los recursos turbios a su disposición, Tito alcanza el puesto de Jefe de la Magistratura, aprovechando cualquier oportunidad para el abuso de poder, lo que le hace muy impopular. Uno de sus actos más despreciables es su matrimonio fingido con la campesina Tessa.

Based on the short story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of a Clerical life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.

'1850. Squire's grandson saves farmer's niece from charge of murdering illegitimate baby.' (British Film Catalogue)

After having been wrongly accused of murder and robbery, a heretofore kindly and gregarious weaver becomes a nasty, bitter, lonely old miser. Originally a seven-reel picture, a three-reel re-release survives.